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Sr. Exploit Developer (US)

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They are looking for a Senior Exploit Developer to work on their Initial Access Intelligence team, focusing on delivering exploits and related artifacts to help organizations defend against emerging ...

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Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site

$125K - $225K/yr

Parsons is looking for a talented Malware / Exploit Software Developer to join our growing team! What You'll Be Doing: * Offensive capability development * Will develop exploits, shellcode, and ...

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Sr. Exploit Developer (US)

Sr. Exploit Developer (US)

VulnCheck

Remote

$55.75 - $73.75/hr

Full-time

Posted 5 days ago

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Job Summary:
VulnCheck is transforming vulnerability intelligence by helping security teams act faster and with more confidence. They are looking for a Senior Exploit Developer to work on their Initial Access Intelligence team, focusing on delivering exploits and related artifacts to help organizations defend against emerging threats.
Responsibilities:
• Reverse engineering software to discover the root cause analysis (RCA) of vulnerabilities.
• Authoring original software exploits for initial access vulnerabilities, when little or no publicly-available proof of concept code for exploiting such vulnerabilities exists.
• Implementing detections (such as Suricata & Snort signatures, YARA rules, etc.) for identifying such initial access vulnerabilities being exploited on the wire
• Writing Attack Surface Management (ASM) queries (e.g., Shodan, Census, FOFA, & ZoomEye) for finding vulnerable systems likely to be targeted
Qualifications:
Required:
• Prior experience with writing exploit code for RCE / initial access vulnerabilities (that do not require authentication to exploit)
• Experience working on technical projects remotely, alone, and on small teams.
• Reverse engineering software to discover the root cause analysis (RCA) of vulnerabilities.
• Authoring original software exploits for initial access vulnerabilities, when little or no publicly-available proof of concept code for exploiting such vulnerabilities exists.
• Implementing detections (such as Suricata & Snort signatures, YARA rules, etc.) for identifying such initial access vulnerabilities being exploited on the wire.
• Writing Attack Surface Management (ASM) queries (e.g., Shodan, Census, FOFA, & ZoomEye) for finding vulnerable systems likely to be targeted.
Preferred:
• Prior Cybersecurity work experience (at a vendor or in Government).
• Able to share example exploit code written.
Company:
VulnCheck provides vulnerability intelligence and exploit monitoring services for security teams. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in Lexington, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.

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